Last year, TikTok was fined €530m by the DPC and ordered to bring its data transfers to China into line with EU privacy law. The High Court stayed the ruling as the platform argued the damage caused would be in the billions. That stay is now set for an urgent Supreme Court appeal.
The $20bn AI firm had used an Irish company as a point of contact for EU tech laws on compliance measures such as GDPR, but in recent weeks shifted that function to an Austrian outfit.
A senior manager raised concerns in February about how sensitive personal details in applications forms for a 2025 bursary were handled internally. The agency says the issue was examined and resolved.
Internal records show a senior manager raised the alarm in February that the agency could not give an “assurance of confidentiality” based on how bursary applicant forms are stored internally and shared with assessors. The agency says that the GDPR concern was “successfully resolved”.
The ICCL challenge to the tech giant's use of data is the first case brought under the Representative Actions Directive that allows for collective consumer cases, similar to class actions, to be brought.
The Canadian company successfully pushed back on two broad data requests by Canada’s tax agency. The application of GDPR to the data held by its Irish base factored into the argument.
Meta is challenging €251 million in penalties imposed by the Data Protection Commission after a security breach on Facebook. The tech giant has racked up €3 billion in GDPR fines to date, almost all of which are contested.
Last September, the data protection watchdog fined the social media €91m for user password privacy breaches.
The Currency understands the challenge relates to the watchdog’s inquiry into Apple’s processing of personal data for targeted advertising.
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